Erdek is a small town with population around 34.000 in 2010 in the south of Marmara reqion. It is a domestic tourist destination where stray animals are cared for and fed in summer times when the population increases considerably with domestic tourists and suffer in winter with less people to care for them. There is no veterinary working for Erdek municipality for the time being. They are planning to employ one in the near future. If that happens we have given them our word for training the veterinary in Istanbul when he starts working.

SHKD team
visited Erdek for “neuter and release”
project. They neutered a total of 296
animals, 246 of which is dogs and 50 cats. 193 of dogs and 48 of cats were
female. Most of the animals were healthy.

Four
handicapped dogs, three of them with one leg amputated and one partly paralyzed
in the back legs were brought to SHKD shelter because they couldn’t be released
and Erdek shelter conditions were inconvenient for them to spend the rest of their lives at. The will have more space and freedom at SHKD
forest shelter.

We are
grateful to Actiezwerfhonden for supporting all financial expenditures of this project.